10 Awesome Ways to Integrate Twitter With Your Website

Web developers with social media savvy are in hot demand. Imagine what it would be like to promise your clients a web presence that is fully integrated with their Twitter strategy and makes it easier for their content to go viral on Twitter. Would be nice, no? Well -- why imagine? There's no better time to start utilizing Twitter integration tools than right now. 1. If you're just getting started with wanting to integrate Twitter into your site, than simply adding the traditional Twitter widget to your site's sidebar is a great start. Twitter widgets can be used with virtually any site or blog, including HTMl-only pages. 2. Twitter Buttons is a nifty little service that helps you quickly create a badge to promote your Twitter account. 3. Thanks to Wordpress' dominance in the blog software world, many blog owners are using Alex King's excellent Twitter Tools to integrate Twitter into their blogs. ... and much more. 4. Twitter is a powerful promotional tool. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

The Art of Social Listening: 7 Tools to Improve this Task An integral part of any social media effort is listening. Whether you are in the process of preparing a social media strategy or your campaign is up and running, it is essential to know what your audience is saying. Why you may ask? Well there are a number of reasons but I daresay the most important is that any successful social media campaign must be based on fulfilling the need(s) of its customers. Social Listening not only allows the listener to collect information about their audience and acquire an understanding of their wants and needs, but it can also be used to find out what is being said about the Brand and its competition. Let’s take a quick look at 7 Social Media listening tools small businesses can use to track their mentions across the web: 1.SocialMention This social media search and analysis platform was first brought to my attention by my Twitter pal @Ileane of Basic Blog Tips. 2.Addictomatic 3.Twitter Search 4.Google Alerts 5.WorkStreamer 6.LinkedIn Signal 7.